Susannah Constantine and Trinny Woodall have seen spoof become reality as their mockumentary has resulted in a return to TV

The TV stylists Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine will return to mainstream television this month after Channel 4 snapped up their spoof web documentary, Trinny and Susannah: What They Did Next.

The pair's plan to reinvent their careers after they were axed from ITV last year appears to have paid off. The former What Not to Wear presenters made an internet-only "mockumentary", which has proved a hit.

It is understood that the web show will be reversioned for the one-off C4 programme.

A C4 spokeswoman said: "Trinny and Susannah: What They Did Next will air at the end of September."

The fly-on-the-wall documentary, modelled on Larry David's acclaimed US comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, shows them poking fun at themselves as they "journey to get back to the top and re-establish themselves as Britain's lifestyle queens".

What They Did Next combines scripted and ad-libbed scenes including one in which their agent dumps them and they lose a lucrative advertising contract.

Constantine and Woodall had a TV series together in the UK since ITV decided not to recommission their makeover show last year.

They were hired from the BBC in 2005 but their series of ITV shows, such as Undress the Nation, did not deliver high enough ratings.

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